Thomas
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Thomas
@ThomasDkkr
🏠Amsterdam 💼 @socialdatabase Social activity is playing with data ███ ██████████ ████ █
Katılım Mart 2015
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He rubbed lemon juice on his face. Robbed two banks. Smiled at the cameras. Got caught in an hour. And changed psychology forever.
In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two banks in Pittsburgh and robbed them with no mask, no disguise, and lemon juice on his face. He believed that because lemon juice works as invisible ink on paper, it would make his face invisible to cameras. He smiled directly into the security cameras. Police aired the footage on the evening news and arrested him within an hour.
When shown the tape, Wheeler stared at the screen and said, "But I wore the juice." He had tested the theory with a Polaroid selfie and didn't appear in the photo — because lemon juice got in his eyes and he aimed the camera at the ceiling.
His case inspired Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger to publish their 1999 paper defining the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the cognitive bias where people with low ability drastically overestimate their own competence.
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Over the last few months, we scoured the world for the top posters in every niche & country
We've compiled them into a new tool called Starterpacks: to help new users find the best accounts—big or small—for their interests
⬇️ Reply below with a topic you're most interested in
We'll be rolling out to everyone in the coming weeks.
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If AI is fed fragmented data then AI's insights will be fragmented too. #ImpactCouncil f-st.co/MEBqthk
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If we had to vote for one person to speak to aliens on behalf of the world, who are you voting for?
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The US satire cartoon show South Park secured a five-year deal worth $1.5 billion with Paramount Global. They began their season with this clip, challenging Trump (@realDonaldTrump) to sue them.
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Thomas Slabbers@Thomasslabbers
Elon, since you're diving into X Ads, another major opportunity is pricing based on user value. Today, reaching CEOs or rocket engineers costs about the same as reaching random teenagers. But advertisers are willing to pay 20x more for high value audiences like decision makers, software engineers, or passionate football fans. By letting advertisers reach the users they really want, at a higher price, X can drive more ad revenue without increasing ad load, and relevance per user goes up too. Right now, X matches ads with historic interest. But if the auction could factor in the actual value of the user to the advertiser, it would unlock huge upside. This is something the auction can already handle, it just needs the right input signals. If this aligns with your vision, I'd love to share how we structure job, interest, and demographic classifiers with user level scoring. xAI could train on this quickly to accelerate things. Working with so many advertisers, I can tell you: this is one of the biggest missed opportunities in X Ads. cc @elonmusk
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Rumor has it that Trump is holding X in the basement of a local pizza restaurant. Someone should save him!
Canada Hates Trump@AntiTrumpCanada
BREAKING: In retaliation to Musk’s claim that he’s named in the Epstein files, Trump kidnaps Elon’s son, Lil X. Developing story….
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@realDonaldTrump I don't know if someone told you, but you know that after you die, which is probably within 5 to 10 years, despite your amazing health test results. That people can change history/reality just as fast as you've changed it? And that it will probably be not in your favor right?
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Sleepy Joe Biden, THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, has allowed millions and millions of Criminals, many of them murderers, drug dealers, and people released from prisons and mental institutions from all around the world, to enter our Country through it’s very dangerous and ill conceived Open Border. Sorry, but it’s my job to get these killers and thugs out of here. THAT’S WHAT I GOT ELECTED TO DO. MAGA!
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How's your day going?
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- Please stop with these nonsense posts
Thanks for flagging this @CornelisseJoran
Joran Cornelisse@CornelisseJoran
Genuine Creators on X currently face the challenge of competing with groups of users who systematically engage with each other to secure a share of the monetization pool. As long as engagement farmers aren’t given different incentives, they’ll keep reaping rewards, claiming a share of the monetization pool that should belong to authentic creators. As a result, genuine creators feel less motivated to optimize their content on X, seeing low-effort, short-form content outperform their own. If this issue isn’t addressed in the foreseeable future, low-effort content will dominate, potentially harming X in the long run, unfortunately. Since Musk’s takeover, X has improved significantly, with great features like Spaces, long-form posts, premium subscriptions, Grok plugins, and more making it an even stronger platform. I truly believe in the mission of X and that one day this will be the 'everything' app serving billions of users. To achieve this goal, I’m convinced the 'engagement farming' issue must be addressed soon. It’s a frustrating obstacle slowing X’s development beyond what we’d prefer. I’ve investigated the issue and identified a potential solution by analyzing users’ engagement rates, average post lengths, and the types of engagement they receive. Using this methodology, I’ve compiled a list of 'engagement farmers,' with the link attached in the replies. This approach should help verify the validity of my method. Through this demonstration, I hope X will consider investigating this issue from the perspective I’ve provided. I’m happy to offer additional details if needed.
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You might've noticed it already the last couple weeks, but I've joined @socialdatabase!
I'm honestly super excited to join this awesome team and build cool stuff!
LFG 🔥🔥
Robin@xdNiBoR
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@Claire_Amson @ItsWalterEgo Did this guy build the pyramids on his own?
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More than 500,000 people disappear without a trace every year.
In 2009, something even stranger happened: a man appeared.
No identity. No past. No record of where he came from.
Peter Bergmann never existed.
This is one of the greatest internet mystery of all time. 🧵👇
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